Sustaining our health and wellbeing requires lifelong
efforts for prevention and healthy living. Continuously
observing ourselves is one of the fundamental
measures to be taken. While many devices support
monitoring and quantifying our health behavior and
health state, they all are facing the same trade-off: the
higher the data quality is the higher are the efforts of
data acquisition. However, for lifelong use, minimizing
efforts for the user is crucial. Nowadays, few devices
find a good balance between cost and value. In this
interdisciplinary workshop we discuss how this trade-off
can be approached by addressing three topics:
understanding the user’s information needs, exploring
options for data acquisition, and discussing potential
designs for life-long use.